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American literature and the destruction of knowledge : innovative writing in the age of epistemology

Analyzes the impulse of major 19th- and 20th-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed.
Print Book, English, 1991
Duke University Press, Durham (N.C.), 1991
XXIV, 391 p. 24 cm
9780822311256, 0822311259
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